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Holy Real Life AnthroPC, Batman!
Zebediah:
Resurrecting this thread instead of making a new one, because I found this: The Emotive Robotic Avatar
--- Quote ---This is the robotic puppet that conveys nuanced emotions controlled by its operator from a remote command center. Using a combination of eye expressions, antenna colors, body language, and the digitally modulated voice of its operator, it expresses five feelings--happy, confused, angry, sad, and embarrassed.
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Boy, are we a long way from real AnthroPCs. Not an autonomous being at all, but a puppet. A very expensive puppet. A $65,000.00 puppet. No, that's not a typo - it costs sixty-five thousand US dollars.
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cesium133:
"Here I am, brain the size of the planet, and they ask me to express five emotions."
Carl-E:
"...and the only one I can manage is 'depressed'."
But really, it's the whole "brain the size of a planet" thing that's the problem - what something like that has can't really be called a brain. Getting a computer to do, through software, what our inefficient ball of mush does by having very dicey hardware would probably take a brain bigger than a planet!
mtmerrick:
traditional computing? yes.
quantum computing? nah. that shit will change everything we know about computers, and is a fairly direct path towards a real AI.
qubits FTW.
cesium133:
As someone who works with some of the atomic systems that are suggested as possible bases for quantum computing, I'm pretty sure quantum computing, if it ends up working at all, will not be all it's cracked up to be.
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